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Value Investors Have Many Stocks to Buy in the Energy Sector

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 8:40 am

Last year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing operation, it was not a great year. Share prices rose ...
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Icahn Wins One, Loses One at Transocean Shareholder Meeting

Posted: May 17, 2013 at 2:12 pm

Activist investor Carl Icahn had proposed that the world’s largest offshore drilling firm, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), pay shareholders a one-time dividend of $4 a share and to replace 3 ...
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Closing Bell for Thursday on Wall Street: Lower Opening and Close Despite Jobs Report

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 4:07 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning after the Bank of England left its key interest rate and asset purchase program unchanged (more coverage here). In Asia, China’s consumer ...
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Closing Bell for Wednesday on Wall Street: Markets Open Lower, Stock Prices Rise All Day

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADT, BAC, BHP, CHK, CI, GLW, DE, EBAY, EA, JCP, JNPR, LULU, MNTA, OGE, RSH, RIO, TEF, RIG, UNM)

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 8:25 am

Investors and traders constantly seek new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from the ...
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Argus Changes Model Equity Income Portfolio Picks (RIG, AMAT, BMY, COP)

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 9:10 am

Argus is truly considered to be independent research firm, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen in other Wall Street broker sell-side drive research. ...
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Oil and Gas Short Interest Rises in BP, Falls for Refiners (BHI, BP, CHK, CVX, COP, EPD, XOM, KMI, NOV, PSX, SLB, RIG, VLO)

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 8:45 am

We have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 28 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI); BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy ...
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Icahn Wants More Cash from Transocean

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 8:15 am

Now that Carl Icahn has a toehold at Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and fired off a letter to that company’s board on how shareholders should be treated, he’s getting down ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — March 4, 2013: Markets Open Lower, Rise at End of Day (YHOO, NS, GPS, DF, MRK, ARNA, BYD, SSYS, RIG, YGE, CKP, CEP, FOE, SCSS, SSYS)

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following news out of China that government is about to tighten restrictions on real estate transactions. The news pushed the Shanghai exchange down ...
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Media Digest (3/4/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 6:21 am

President Obama suggests cuts in Social Security and Medicare to end a battle over budget cuts. (Reuters) Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) may try a large acquisition to improve its ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — March 1, 2013: Markets Struggle to Small Gains (DB, V, DRI, BUD, ADSK, BODY, CTIC, CLNE, DECK, GPS, MCP, PANW, SD, BBY, ARNA, BYD, SSYS, RIG, GRPN, MTG, IEP)

Posted: March 1, 2013 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a number of disappointing data releases in Europe and Asia. Eurozone PMI remains on the pessimistic side, with a reading of 47.9, ...
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Oil and Gas Short Interest Turns to Pipelines, Refiners (BHI, BP, CHK, CVX, COP, EPD, XOM, KMI, NOV, PSX, SLB, RIG, VLO)

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 8:45 am

We have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 15 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy ...
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BP Gulf Spill Trial Set to Begin

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 8:40 am

Nearly three years after the explosion and sinking of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million barrels of oil, a federal ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 15, 2013: Markets Continue to Limp Along (CSCO, GOLD, RIG, KGC, JCP, CBS, GG, AEP, BKW, CPB, SJM, TOWR, CRMT, ESRX, NI, WIN, XOOM, TRLA, END)

Posted: February 15, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning on better economic news out of Europe and basically good data in the U.S. In Europe, the eurozone trade balance came in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CTL, CSCO, GRMN, GNRC, GFI, HAIN, HBAN, JCP, KGC, MWW, NTGR, GOLD, RIG, URBN, YNDX)

Posted: February 15, 2013 at 8:45 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) cut to Hold from Buy at Argus, and ...
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